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Marijuana For ADHD?

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Rutgers Study - Forcing DEI Programs On People Increases Hostility

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Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics - Here Is Why That Is A Mistake

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U.S. Forest Service Thanks Environmentalists For Getting Out Of The Way

Apr 16 2012 | comment(s)

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources.

Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government by using other government regulations and red tape to block meaningful improvements, we can actually reduce wildfires, manage water responsibly and protect endangered species, instead of pitting those outcomes against each other, as environmental lawyers had successfully done in the past.

Pseudoscience In The Wall Street Journal Or In Economics?

Apr 16 2012 | comment(s)

Evolution has various mechanisms and one of them is natural selection. While most religious people have no disagreement with science overall, Biblical literalists contend man cannot have changed or evolved. Some confusion about evolution is understandable - evolution is darn complex - and the disagreement with evolution does not fall strongly into any demographic except the religious. In America, we hear more about 'the religious right' but primarily we hear about them from the secular left - while noting that 39% of Republicans don't accept evolution they fail to mention 30% of Democrats don't either.

Competitive Number-Crunching: A Science 2.0 Sport

Apr 15 2012 | comment(s)

When storage is cheap, finding data has value. A $600 hard drive can store all of the world's music so how do you find a song you like?

Math can answer those mysteries, says Kaggle president and chief scientist Jeremy Howard, and in a world of information overload, people who understand making sense of data madness will be paid like rock stars - or athletes. So they are starting now.

The San Francisco startup wants to create a sport for intelligent people. With the whole world of data at your hands, who can find the best answer will become the stuff of pop culture fame - kind of like a Kardashian, except smart.

Physics Proof Of Innocence - Using Science To Get Out Of A Speeding Ticket

Apr 14 2012 | comment(s)

What's the world coming to? With all of the PhDs America produces, pretty soon law enforcement will be limited to officers with graduate degrees in quantum physics - but for now, Newton is still all it takes. Well, usually. Sometimes even the laws of physics are not what they look like.

And special laws of physics apply on April 1st so use the contents of this paper on the differences between angular and linear motion carefully. Not every judge is going to be impressed but this was in California, so he was probably happy to have someone besides an environmental activist in court.

Stem Cell Therapy - Texas Wants To Lead The Way

Apr 13 2012 | comment(s)

The downside to partisan embryonic stem cell hype over the last decade and conflation of it with adult stem cell breakthroughs, is that a whole lot of hucksters are exploiting public confusion and claims about miracle cures to make an easy buck. But there is real value in there too, the public just needs to be able to separate the good stuff from the nonsense.

Does Voting Make Epigenetic Changes?

Apr 11 2012 | comment(s)

We know that voting changes your brain a little - just reading that sentence changed your brain a little, so actions and behaviors certainly change us. But does voting change your descendants?

Epigenetics is really a nascent field and that means there is a lot of interpretation. That also means people can try to make the case that politics is genetic. Which means partisan spinmeisters, within science and outside it, will find new avenues for the confirmation bias of their faithful.